An architecture of distributed co-simulation backplane

This paper implements a distributed co-simulation backplane based on the client-server model. The backplane is the channel through which the different simulators (solvers), communicate. The proposed architecture is based on running the different simulators on different workstations. The simulators are connected together through a high speed LAN (Fast-Ethernet). The backplane is a multi-threaded TCP server running on one of the workstations connected to the same LAN. The proposed architecture gets use of the available networks evolution and resources, it offloads each workstation and adds only the overhead of communication to the original simulator.